Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandhā Vagga
23. Rādha Saṃyuttaṃ
1. Māra Vagga
Suttas Linked to Rādha
1. Māra
Suttas 1-46
Translated from the Pāḷi
by
Michael M. Olds
Sutta 5
Paṭhama Samaṇa Suttaṃ
Shaman (1)
Once upon a time, The Lucky man,
Sāvatthi-town revisiting,
Jeta Grove,
Anathapiṇḍika's Park.
Then one time there the Ancient Rādha drew near Bhagava,
gave salutation,
and took a seat to one side.
At that time, so seated,
the Lucky Man said this
to the Ancient Rādha:
"These five, Rādha,
are the grasped-after stockpiles.
What five?
These:
Grasped-after form,
grasped-after sense-experience,
grasped-after perception,
grasped-after own-making,
grasped-after consciousness.
Whatever those shamans and Brahmans, Rādha,
that do not understand as it really is
the satisfaction in
the disadvantages of,
the halting of,
these five grasped-after stockpiles
as they really are,
these those shamans and Brahmans, Rādha,
are not, by me,
measured among shaman as shaman,
nor as Brahmins among Brahmins,
and furthermore, these elders
have not seen for themselves
in this seen thing
through higher knowledge,
the point of shamanship, or
the point of brahminship,
nor do they enter into and abide therein.
But, Rādha, whatever those shamans and Brahmans
do understand as it really is
the satisfaction in
the disadvantages of,
the halting of,
these five grasped-after stockpiles
as they really are,
these those shamans and Brahmans, Rādha,
are, by me,
measured among shaman as shaman,
as Brahmins among Brahmins
and furthermore, these elders,
have seen for themselves
in this seen thing
through higher knowledge,
the point of shamanship, or
the point of brahminship,
and they enter into and abide therein."
